In The Navy

6 May 2010 - "China's neighbors must get used to the presence of the Chinese navy in Asian waters," a retired Peoples' Liberation Army general said in response to Tokyo's protest over a vessel chasing one of its surveying ships out of an area under dispute. The presence of the Chinese navy reportedly caused an uproar in Japan. "China's absence in its exclusive waters over the past decades was an abnormal historical accident and now it is just advancing to normal operations," Xu Guangya said. Xu said the maturing of the Chinese navy was driven by its continuation of national interests abroad over the past decade, including its oil investments in Africa and energy transport route from the Middle East and Africa, as well as its duty to protect Chinese nationals. I am just reading the book "The Next 100 years" by George Friedman, who claims that the USA navy will rule the oceans for the next century to come. Maybe the title of the book should be changed into "The Next 10 years"?